[Python-Dev] Move selected documentation repos to PSF BitBucket account?

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Sun, Nov 23, 2014 at 08:55:50AM -0800, Guido van Rossum wrote:

> But I strongly believe that if we want to do the right thing for the 
> long term, we should switch to GitHub.

Encouraging a software, or social, monopoly is never the right thing for 
the long term.

http://nedbatchelder.com/blog/201405/github_monoculture.html


> I promise you that once the pain of the switch is over you will feel 
> much better about it. I am also convinced that we'll get more 
> contributions this way.

I'm sure that we'll get *more* contributions, but will they be *better* 
contributions?

I know that there are people who think that mailing lists are old and 
passe, and that we should shift discussion to a social media site like 
Reddit. If we did, we'd probably get twenty times as many comments, and 
the average quality would probably plummet. More is not necessarily a 
good thing.


-- 
Steven